Beyond Farmers Markets: Why Local Food Belongs on Grocery Shelves Kathleen Merrigan (deputy secretary of the USDA), writing at The Atlandtic: When the farmer, the packer, the wholesaler, and the retailer all prosper in the same region, it creates opportunity for home-grown jobs, draws more people into agriculture, and fosters relationships between the people who […]
Sass Tutorials A video series on YouTube re: using Sass. (tagged: video SCSS CSS Sass ) Dad and The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming By Stephen Wyatt Bush. Good advice, no matter what field you're in. (tagged: essay advice programming ) Prismatic Architecture: Using Machine Learning on Social Networks to Figure Out What You Should […]
DARPA Wants to Create Space Scavengers to Leech on Dead Satellites At Gizmodo. (tagged: research space robot ) Share Cropping By Kathryn Flagg, writing for Seven Days. Speaking for myself, I have kind of a love/hate relationship with the CSA model. On the one hand, it's incredibly convenient to get a weekly stash of straight-from-the-farm […]